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Robert Montgomery — a B-list star in the ’40s — more or less abandoned his acting career to produce and direct. His first full directing gig was a daring, if not all that aesthetically successful, experiment — an adaptation of Raymond Chandler's “Lady in the Lake” (1947), in which the camera took the literal eye-position point of view of protagonist Philip Marlowe (who he also played).

Later that year, he directed and starred in “Ride the Pink Horse,” from Dorothy B. Hughes's novel. (A few years later, Nicholas Ray would make a more famous Hughes adaptation, the Bogart film “In a Lonely Place.”)

Montgomery plays the ironically named “Lucky” Gagin, who arrives in the small...

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Robert Montgomery — a B-list star in the ’40s — more or less abandoned his acting career to produce and direct. His first full directing gig was a daring, if not all that aesthetically successful, experiment — an adaptation of Raymond Chandler's “Lady...